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Conclusion If one thinks ASEAN should be a true economic and political-security community as Desker suggests, than ASEAN should have a unified and far more robust approach to the SCS. The obstacles to such a vision of ASEAN community would be recognized as extending far beyond the inability or...

Many cite the now infamous failure of ASEAN to issue in 2012 a post-summit joint communiqué as “proof” of the lack of ASEAN unity regarding SCS disputes. This assessment is incontrovertible; the questions it does not answer are why SCS disputes should have centrality to ASEAN and why ASEAN...

Striking among these select assessments of contemporary ASEAN is the paucity of reference to the impact of the SCS, despite the fact that though tensions including violent clashes have occurred regarding SCS claims for decades, since 2009 acute tensions have revived because of the overlapping...

An evaluation of the impact of SCS disputes on ASEAN at this critical juncture in its evolution depends, fundamentally, upon what one thinks ASEAN is all about. Individual ASEAN member-states adopted a charter in 2008 that lays out the organization’s formal objectives. A centerpiece is that...

This.

That thing sure looks like a monster.

Analysts say the weapon would be one of the largest intercontinental ballistic missile of its kind in the world if it is operational. The new North Korean 'monster' intercontinental ballistic missile (Image: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image) North Korea unveiled a previously unseen 'monster'...

Hard to believe but lets them try.

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Brian DeCicco, 380th Operations Support Squadron weather flight commander, deployed from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and Senior Master Sgt. Ronald Bradford, 380th OSS weather flight noncommissioned officer in charge. U.S. Air Force...

China accused the USS John S. McCain of entering waters around the disputed Paracel Islands.PHOTO: US NAVY HONG KONG (REUTERS) - A Chinese military spokesman said on Friday (Oct 9) that the US destroyer John McCain had entered waters around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea...

The mysterious aircraft will deliver “survivability, lethality, and persistence.” Here's how. Last month, the Air Force announced it secretly designed, built, and flew a new fighter jet. The Air Force believes “sixth-generation” fighters will require major new tech, but the service won’t say...

The Army is seeking a new mid-range missile system that can hit targets between 500 to 1,500 kilometers, or 310 to 930 miles, to help fill a gap in its fires portfolio by 2023. Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team, said the...

Depends on the importance of the imported components.

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Only woman in history who commanded a level-2 hospital twice Brig Gen Nazma Begum. Photo: ISPR Bangladesh Army got its first female Brigadier General -- Nazma Begum -- from medical administration (non-specialist). Brig Gen Nazma was also the first female field ambulance commander in the...

File photo of a U-2 landing at Beale AFB, California. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force) This was the first time the open-source container-orchestration system has flown on an operational major weapon system in the Department of Defense. In what was the first time the system has flown on an...